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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

803 PM MDT TUE AUG 15 2006



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...



* UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT



* AT 759 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED

  SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL

  ACROSS THE COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR HAD

  ESTIMATED NEAR 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE 5 PM MDT ACROSS

  STATE HIGHWAY 125 IN EXTREME NORTHEAST LEA COUNTY...ALONG HIGHWAY

  380...5 MILES WEST OF GLADIOLA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL 

  CONTINUE ACROSS THE COUNTY THROUGH MIDNIGHT AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL

  WILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. 



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO HOBBS...TATUM...

  MCDONALD...GLADIOLA...CROSSROADS AND EUNICE



FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW

WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE

ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO

HIGHER GROUND.



TO REPORT FLOODING... HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY

YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN

MIDLAND.



TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL

WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.



LAT...LON 3208 10372 3206 10310 3352 10307 3353 10367



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